All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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Love is not a volunteer thing.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords...

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords...

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be...

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be...

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady...

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady...

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not...

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not...

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally...

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally...

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from...

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from...

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of...

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of...

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will...

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will...

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly...

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly...

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages...

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages...

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay...

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay...

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the...

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the...

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called...

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called...

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often...

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often...